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Glen Oliver, first mate on the/Randi & Brianne , was hauling traps in the middle of the Annapolis Basin Oct. 22 when he saw something he’d never seen before. He hollered to captain Ralph Cummings to take a look. In the parlour of the trap, along with a couple lobster, was a fish Cummings had never seen before. “I’ve been fishing for 30 year and I’ve never seen one,” he said. “I took a picture and sent it to Johnny. I knew he could figure it out.” Cummings is used to fish in the traps – it’s not at all unusual to find codfish, sculpins or toadfish in the parlour. But this was different. Cummings had caught a grey triggerfish (Balistes capriscus) about a foot and half long with a deep body, tough leathery scales, eyes set back and high up on the body and a little beak-like mouth. Cummings learned the hard way that inside the little mouth are two rows of sharp teeth. “He bit me. I guess I had my hand too close to his mouth,” he said. Read the story here with two more images 11:41

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

The federal New England Fishery Management Council’s Groundfish Oversight Committee recommended a battery of changes, including one restriction that would prohibit fishing by private recreational and Read More »

Principle Power, a renewable energy technology developer headquartered in the Pioneer Square neighborhood, received a go ahead from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to submit a formal proposal to Read More »

The problem? According to critics, marijuana plantations guzzle enormous amounts of water while also spilling pesticides, fertilizers and stream-clogging sediments into waterways, including the Eel and Read More »